George Shane

George Shane

Nacimiento : , Belfast, Northern Ireland

Muerte : 2016-03-09

Historia

George Shane was a Northern Irish actor of stage and screen. His film credits included A Prayer for the Dying, An Everlasting Piece, and Closing the Ring. He died in Derry on 9th March, 2016 at the age of 71.

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George Shane

Películas

Cerrando el círculo
Maginty
En 1943 un soldado de artillería moribundo tras un accidente con un bombardero americano, da un anillo a un lugareño para que se lo entregue a su novia en Estados Unidos. Cincuenta años después, un hombre encuentra el anillo, y busca a la chica (ahora ya una anciana) y el rastro del anillo.
Cacería
Governor
Un grupo de delincuentes juveniles violentos es enviado a un campamento militar situado en una isla desierta en la que pronto se darán cuenta de que no están solos. Un asesino piscótico espera a sus víctimas con trampas letales, desmembramientos, perros hambrientos y armamento mortal.
Holy Cross
Harry
Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.
An Everlasting Piece
Billy King
En la convulsa Belfast de los años ochenta, dos jóvenes -uno católico y otro protestante- tratan desesperadamente de abrirse camino en el complicado gremio de la peluquería. (FILMAFFINITY)
Resurrection Man
James Kelly
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into madness.
Life After Life
Mr. Moloney
Leo Doyle, a convicted IRA murderer, is released into the community after 14 years in prison on a scheme to rehabilitate former terrorists. He soon finds that the ceasefire has robbed him of both purpose and identity. Relationships with his family are difficult and reach boiling point when they find that he has rekindled his affair with a former fiancee Roisin, now married with three children.
Love Lies Bleeding
Gerry Ellis
Conn is an IRA murderer serving a life sentence in an Irish prison. He is given a 24 hour home leave during which he goes from point to point in Belfast looking to revenge his lover's murder.
You, Me & Marley
Tony
A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
Shoot To Kill
DCI Samuel George Flanagan
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Chinese Whispers
Stella
Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.
Réquiem por los que van a morir
O'Connor
Martin Fallon, un activista del IRA, abandona la organización tras una crisis de conciencia que lo lleva a cuestionarse los ideales por los que había luchado. Con el propósito de emprender una nueva vida, se traslada a Londres, pero sus antiguos compañeros del IRA lo siguen hasta allí. Un gángster le ofrece ayuda, pero, a cambio, tendrá que matar a uno de sus rivales. Fallon accede, pero un sacerdote católico es testigo del asesinato.
Lorna
Tommy Agnew
In the follow-up to Graham Reid’s trilogy of ‘Billy’ plays, Billy's sister Lorna Martin is left to care for their Uncle Andy. Lorna feels trapped, but Andy wishes to give her the freedom she desires.
Shergar
Patrick
Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.
Pigs
George
Grim tale of marginalized souls in an apocalyptic Dublin inner city. Jimmy takes up residence in a derelict and once elegant house in a no-go inner area. He is soon joined by other squatters, George a business man trying to retain some dignity, Ronnie a drug dealer, Tom a paranoiac, Orwell a Jamaican pimp and his prostitute Mary
Cal
Second Policeman
Para Cal, un chico de 19 años de Irlanda del Norte, la vida no es nada fácil: podría ayudar en el matadero de su padre, pero detesta esa clase de trabajo, o podría recoger cada semana su cheque de desempleo; podría pensar que no tiene futuro o intentar cambiarlo. Cal y su padre son católicos, pero viven en un barrio protestante, sometidos a constantes amenazas de carácter violento. Finalmente, un día, les incendian la casa. Cal decide entonces ingresar en el IRA y su consuelo será el amor que siente por Marcella, una viuda italiana católica.
A Coming to Terms for Billy
Tommy Agnew
Belfast, 1980: July, the marching season ... Norman Martin, away for two years, returns with his 'English woman', Mavis. How will the family - particularly Billy - react? And has she achieved the impossible in mellowing the man?
Acceptable Levels
Frank McAteer
A BBC film crew is interviewing a ‘typical Catholic family’ in the Divis Flats area of Belfast, when news comes in that a child, known to the family, has been hit by a stray plastic bullet fired by a British soldier – a version of events contested by the army. Back in London, editing the footage, the producer and researcher on the project wrestle with how to present the incident, and with their responsibility to the people in the film.
Maeve
Causeway Man
Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
The Last Window Cleaner
Sidekick
When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no one is what they seem and everyone has been living with 'the troubles' for far too long...
The Boxer
It's 1975 in Belfast. Jimmy Doherty returns to his home town just having lost a boxing match in Dublin, where he has been living. He awakes in a rundown room and begins to take stock. He finds that things have changed and people have gone. He begins to search for Gerry Mitchell, a figure from his past. He runs into dead ends and in frustration begins to drink. In a bar, he meets two men who tell him they can take him to Gerry...
The Legion Hall Bombing
Second Accused's Father
The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.